That nasal, flat vocal sound went from being novel to being like an unwelcome houseguest who just won’t take the hint that it is time to leave. It seemed everyone was using Auto-Tune on everything. The Dark Side of the Pitch Correction Forceīut not long after, pitch correction mutated into a blight on the charts. Even when the record company said they liked the song but the vocal effect had to go, Cher said, “You can change that part of it - over my dead body.” After that, no one dared to make any changes, and rumor has it the final version that became a hit was actually the rough mix. With trepidation, the version was played for Cher - and she ended up loving it.
Then songwriter Mark Taylor started messing around with Auto-Tune and Cubase and created the weird warbling effect on Cher’s voice by using extreme pitch correction settings. “Believe” changed her mind, but it never quite seemed to gel into a final arrangement. Originally, Cher didn’t want to do an album of dance music. (Yes, two decades ago, Cher had already done 22 albums.) Auto-Tune was the engine that provided the novel, provocative, other-worldly vocal effect that made listeners sit up and take notice.įigure 1: Over the years, the original Auto-Tune has evolved into Auto-Tune Pro, which offers multiple options for processing beyond simple pitch correction.īut it almost didn’t happen. 1) - topped the charts and was the highlight of her 22nd album. Pepper taught the band to play, but that Cher’s “Believe” - the coming-out party for Antares’ Auto-Tune (fig.
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